How to do a screen capture?

[Qwert]

How do you do a screen capture? The godawful Microsoft
help files don't even know what a screen capture is! I
have a Microsoft Wireless Natural Multimedia Keyboard.

[Nicholas]

Simultaneously press ALT + PRT SCRN, open your PAINT
program, and from Paint's Toolbar, select PASTE.


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[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

Press the PrtScn key to capture the entire display. Use Alt-PrtScn to
capture just the active window. The contents are saved to the Windows
clipboard. Then open Paint, or other graphics editing program, and paste
the clipboard contents into the graphics application. Some word processing
and other applications will support pasting the contents directly into a
file.

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"Qwert" > wrote in message
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> How do you do a screen capture? The godawful Microsoft
> help files don't even know what a screen capture is! I
> have a Microsoft Wireless Natural Multimedia Keyboard.

[Ken Blake]

In ,
Qwert > typed:

> How do you do a screen capture? The godawful Microsoft
> help files don't even know what a screen capture is! I
> have a Microsoft Wireless Natural Multimedia Keyboard.


Back in the days of DOS, the PrintScrn key used to print the
screen. But in all versions of Windows, this works differently,
and the name of the key is now an anachronism.

To use the key, press it to capture an image of the entire
screen, or press alt-PrintScrn to capture an image of the active
window. Either one captures the image to the Windows clipboard.

Once it's in the clipboard you can paste (Ctrl-V) it into any
application that supports graphics (Windows Paint, other graphics
programs, even your favorite word processor). You can edit or add
to the image as you wish, then print it.

This ability to manipulate the image in a program before printing
it is an improvement over the original DOS method of just
printing it. But if you'd like that old facility back, there are
several third-party freeware/shareware programs that can do this.


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[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

Pressing the <PrtScn> key copies the entire display to the
clipboard. Pressing <ALT>+<PrtScn> copies only the active Window to
the clipboard. To view the screen capture, open a graphics program,
such as MS Paint, and press <CTRL>+V. This will paste the contents of
the clipboard (your screenshot) into the open file, and allow you to
view it or save it as a file for later use.

How to Capture Screen Shots in Windows Using the Print Screen Key
http://support.microsoft.com/search/preview.aspx?PR=1&scid=kb;en-us;Q173884

Curiously, this is exactly the same way WinXP's Help & Support
says to do it, after a quick search on "print screen."

Bruce Chambers

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"Qwert" > wrote in message
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> How do you do a screen capture? The godawful Microsoft
> help files don't even know what a screen capture is! I
> have a Microsoft Wireless Natural Multimedia Keyboard.

[Jim Macklin]

www.analogx.com has a nice, free utility he calls
CAPTURE which allows capturing either the desktop or the
open window to a file (and folder) of your choice. You can
then use any photoeditor to convert, resize, or edit the
picture.


"Bruce Chambers" > wrote in
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| Greetings --
|
| Pressing the <PrtScn> key copies the entire display to
the
| clipboard. Pressing <ALT>+<PrtScn> copies only the active
Window to
| the clipboard. To view the screen capture, open a
graphics program,
| such as MS Paint, and press <CTRL>+V. This will paste the
contents of
| the clipboard (your screenshot) into the open file, and
allow you to
| view it or save it as a file for later use.
|
| How to Capture Screen Shots in Windows Using the Print
Screen Key
|
http://support.microsoft.com/search/preview.aspx?PR=1&scid=kb;en-us;Q173884
|
| Curiously, this is exactly the same way WinXP's Help &
Support
| says to do it, after a quick search on "print screen."
|
| Bruce Chambers
|
| --
| Help us help you:
| http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
| http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
|
| You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever
count on
| having both at once. -- RAH
|
|
| "Qwert" > wrote in message
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| > How do you do a screen capture? The godawful Microsoft
| > help files don't even know what a screen capture is! I
| > have a Microsoft Wireless Natural Multimedia Keyboard.
|
|

[TC]

Qwert wrote:

>How do you do a screen capture? The godawful Microsoft
>help files don't even know what a screen capture is! I
>have a Microsoft Wireless Natural Multimedia Keyboard.
>

I use a piece of software called Screen Capture.

Here is a captured example of your post:

http://home.mindspring.com/~tomcom/Screen_Capture/Screen_Capture_Example.jpg

Here is their web site:

http://home.mindspring.com/~tomcom/Screen_Capture/Screen_Capture_Software.jpg

[herbzee]

Qwert wrote:
>
> How do you do a screen capture? The godawful Microsoft
> help files don't even know what a screen capture is! I
> have a Microsoft Wireless Natural Multimedia Keyboard.

Try "print screen (prt Scr)

[Malvern]

If you have Word and/or Power Point, they willl work. I use them many
times. exactly for this.

Malv

"Doug Knox MS-MVP" > wrote in message
...
> Press the PrtScn key to capture the entire display. Use Alt-PrtScn to
> capture just the active window. The contents are saved to the Windows
> clipboard. Then open Paint, or other graphics editing program, and paste
> the clipboard contents into the graphics application. Some word
processing
> and other applications will support pasting the contents directly into a
> file.
>
> --
> Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows XP/ Windows Smart Display
> Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes
> http://www.dougknox.com
> --------------------------------
> Associate Expert
> ExpertZone - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
> --------------------------------
> Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit.
> Unsolicited e-mail is not answered.
>
> "Qwert" > wrote in message
> ...
> > How do you do a screen capture? The godawful Microsoft
> > help files don't even know what a screen capture is! I
> > have a Microsoft Wireless Natural Multimedia Keyboard.
>
>